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We all look up at the moon and wonder. And maybe dream. For centuries, the moon filled our imaginations. Eleven professional writers took those dreams and set original stories on moons scattered all over the galaxy. Yet, as the dreams of centuries, every story holds a human touch. From a mythical man fulfilling a childhood wish to a fantastic addition to Kristine Kathryn Rusch's best-selling Retrieval Artist series, this volume of Fiction River allows you to travel to 11 different moons without leaving the comfort of home.

Beware of the night, for it shows no mercy. Anxieties run rampant as the last sprinklings of light twinkle out on the inky horizon. The shadows dance their choreography in the damp, dusky air. Night is taking over, and it knows how to keep a dark and deadly secret, for it allows no witnesses. And that screaming you hear nearby? Watch out, because you might be next. The Sinister Supernatural Stories series brings you delicious horror that focuses on elements of the supernatural. Pull up a chair and dig in, but never after dark—everyone knows bad things always happen after dark.

In March 2005, Dr. Steven Berk was kidnapped in Amarillo, Texas, by a dangerous and enigmatic criminal who entered his home, armed with a shotgun, through an open garage door. Dr. Berk's experiences and training as a physician, especially his understanding of Sir William Osler's treatise on aequanimitas, enabled him to keep his family safe, establish rapport with his kidnapper, and bring his captor to justice.

The complete transcript to a self-help audiobook by the same name.

Bumps and Bruises is a book of principles formulated over 28 years of observation, experience, and counsel, with thousands of individuals coping with disappointments, failed expectations, strained relationships, and broken dreams. From the vantage point of a physician, Dr. Hoer approaches the challenges we face in life much like treating a sickness. We first have to make the correct diagnosis to understand the origin of our discomfort. We then make the best treatment plan, a plan of action to get better, and learn habits and practices to prevent the ill health that plagues us all.

The AI for Accountants manual provides accountants with a comprehensive understanding of how artificial intelligence is transforming the accounting industry, as well as how to leverage AI tools and methodologies to enhance decision-making, accounting efficiency, and strategic insights.

There is a fire in the Frontier, a fire of a growing and dangerous empire. Though light years from the farming world of Kodomir, it burns a former enemy who seeks Kodomir’s assistance. It may be a devil’s bargain, but Kodomir needs allies and feels honor-bound to pay a debt. The Kodomir Militia sends its only unit with off-world experience, the former mercenaries called the Wild Geese. Gwielgi is given the job of devising the plan to pull down the empire but the only chance to do it will put the woman he loves at deadly risk. But no plan can protect the Geese from harm or possible ...

Someone keeps sending small mercenary groups to perform hit and run raids on the backwater farming world of Kodomir. As tensions rise following attack after attack, Kodomir, still trying to determine who is attacking them and why, suddenly finds itself the target of two imperialist powers, both of whom want Kodomir as a stepping stone towards the other. As foreign fleets in orbit overhead eye one another, diplomats and intelligence officers race to find the key to the lock that will save Kodomir from being ground to dust between the two powers. Part of the solution may be a disgraced ...

In the 29th Century, the greatest evil in the human settled worlds is slavery, the ultimate expression of wealth and power. While many oppose it, on some worlds it flourishes, restrained only by the slaveholders’ fear of the slaves themselves, for there is no such thing as slave loyalty. However, in the shattered, burned rubble of Torianis, a rebel warlord’s elite soldiers, soldiers who died fighting with an almost inhuman precision and competency, put the Free Union’s intelligence service on the track of what might be programmable slaves. More than mass produced clones, someone has ...

In Mercenary’s Redemption, the seventh Wild Geese novel by Steven M. Silver, Free Union President Peter Mavis Carmichael, the cunning and ruthless leader of the most powerful bloc among humanity’s Settled Worlds, struggles to maintain his grip on power. At the same time, on the backwater farming world of Kodomir, a member of the Free Union, the man known as Gwielgi tries to find peace with his demons. His grief and guilt drive him into a desert. As fighting rises within the Free Union, Carmichael is believed dead and chaos rapidly spreads and Kodomir is occupied by a brutal leader of ...

Mercenary’s Justice, the tenth Wild Geese science fiction novel by Steven M. Silver, follows Gwielgi as he flees from his home, a place of painful memories, and. becomes a mercenary again. He hires on as a security advisor to a judicial team representing the Organization of Settled Worlds’ High Court. Sent into the Frontier to resolve conflicts, the team finds itself in increasing danger and it becomes clear powerful interests, for reasons unclear, are keeping the legal team exposed to that danger. While Gwielgi tries to protect the team and deal with ghosts and ex-enemies of the past, ...

Mercenary’s Peace is the ninth Wild Geese science fiction novel by Steven M. Silver. Kodomir, a small world and home of the former mercenaries called the Wild Geese, is attacked during peace negotiations, killing and wounding many. Among them is Gwielgi, who, like many others, has wounds of body more than matched by his damaged heart – among the dead is the woman he loved. As the war moves on, the Kodomiri try to pick up the pieces of their lives. Then the war that almost casually savaged Kodomir turns from its distant battlefields and returns to Kodomir. Still heart broken and ...

The eleventh Wild Geese novel, Mercenary’s Humanity, opens with a cry in space, a cry followed by silence. Disasters visiting new colonies is not rare, especially in the Frontier, and Kodomir sends a relief force. But there are secrets inside of secrets on New Monterey and the first is the colonists are not alone. Something, someone, from the dark past, is rising from the mountains like ghosts of mythology. Into this comes the Wild Geese and Gwielgi has his own secrets revealed, including one that could result in his death. As Gwielgi and the Geese fight to survive, they find an ...

You wanted the jolly fat man to bring Yuletide joy, but the season has gifted you with a heart breaker and a life taker—Badass Santa. Grab your eggnog and camouflage candy canes, strap on your bulletproof holiday stockings, and prepare for thrills and kills.

Internal audits can be ponderous affairs, requiring the use of an extensive audit program, multiple reviews, and the delayed issuance of findings and recommendations. In the Agile Auditing manual, we describe how to avoid these issues by restructuring audit teams, accelerating the audit timeline, including the client in the conduct of audits, paring back workpapers, and focusing on providing a strong value proposition to the client. The net result is a much more effective internal audit department.

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE PRESIDENT WANTS YOU DEAD? You do the thing you were trained to do. You fight back or you die. That’s the situation ex-Navy SEAL Trace Austin faces when the President of the United States decides to eliminate the five people who know his deadly secret — a secret so disturbing that should it ever be revealed, it will send the President to prison for the rest of his life. Trace knows the President’s secret. He is one of the five people the President must eliminate before he leaves Office and gives up his powers as President. But Trace will not go quietly. He will ...

Cheerful in the face of dark opposition. Innovative to improve a backward world. Industrial as a cure for oppressive conditions. Unyielding beneath all who seek to bind and control them. Faithful until they conquer the fear of death and rise to great acts of heroism and service. Mormons and steampunks are two faces of the same coin. Twelve authors spin tales of true believers facing impossible odds, risking this life in the hope of gaining something better after.

Men and women are separated to achieve permanent peace. No competition, no jealousy, no love. But what if everything you thought to be true was just a façade to enforce compliance? Andrea is in her final year of school - the year each woman meets a man for the first time. Reluctant to participate and meet the expectations of her community, she decides to try and understand this unfamiliar gender for herself before partaking in her sexual duties.

The spell of an ancient ancestor king throws Jaron into the middle of a war when that king returns from beyond the grave. Jaron discovers that his whole life was only a disguise. His friends weren’t who he thought they were, and his father who he thought was dead, wasn’t. In a war of kings, he might be the final piece of a plan that started centuries ago.

Welcome to "Heathens & Heroes," where the bravest souls find their destiny amidst the chaos of battle, and ancient swords gleam with untold power while dark magic crackles like lightning across the battlefield. Embark on an epic journey through the realms of imagination with this spellbinding anthology of sword and sorcery tales. From the shadowed corridors of forgotten castles to the savage wilderness where mythical beasts roam, immerse yourself in a tapestry of adventure, honor, and mystic intrigue.